MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- The Alabama House Republican Caucus today released its 2014 legislative agenda, which House Speaker Mike Hubbard of Auburn said would help businesses and the state’s economy.

Several of the bills are intended to streamline or reduce taxes, according to summaries of the bills released by the caucus.

The caucus dubbed the nine-bill package the "Commonsense Conservative" agenda.

The 2014 session will be the last regular session of the four-year term. Republicans have controlled the Legislature since winning filibuster-proof majorities in 2010. Before that, Democrats had controlled the Legislature for more than 130 years.

“We’re not done building,” Hubbard said. “We’ll continue that in the next quadrennium. But for this quadrennium, it’s a perfect way to cap it off.”

Hubbard was joined today at a State House news conference by 10 other Republican House members. They included sponsors of the bills and members of a platform committee who worked with other GOP House members to compile the agenda.

Hubbard said seven of the nine bills in the package are new proposals.

The legislative session begins Jan. 14. Here are the bills:

--- Small Business Tax Relief Act, Rep. Barry Moore, R-Enterprise.

Currently, businesses are required to pay in advance if their average monthly estimated sales tax payment is more than $1,000. The bill would raise the threshold to $2,500 a month.

--- Business Tax Streamlining Act, Rep. Greg Wren, R-Montgomery.

Would "simplify the process" for filing business personal property taxes, according to the caucus. Would create a new online filing system that provides a “one-stop shop” for filing these taxes and allow businesses claiming $10,000 or less in business personal property tax to file a short form that does not require them to itemize their property.

--- Tax Elimination Act, Rep. Jim Patterson, R-Meridianville.

Would give the Alabama Department of Revenue the authority to suspend taxes and fees when the cost of collecting the tax exceeds the amount of revenue the tax brings in.

--- Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights, Rep. Paul DeMarco, R-Homewood.

Would change the process for hearing tax assessment appeals to “ensure that all taxpayers are treated fairly,” according to the Republican Caucus. The House has passed similar bills the last three years.

Prompted by the targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of some conservative nonprofit groups that were trying to gain tax-exempt status. Would “ensure that Alabamians never have to worry about their state government threatening them for their political views.”

--- Revolving Door Act, Rep. Ken Johnson, R-Moulton.

Prompted by this year's resignations of several lawmakers, some of whom took jobs as lobbyists. Bans former legislators from lobbying either house of the Legislature within two years after leaving the Legislature. The existing law has been interpreted to allow former House members to lobby the Senate within the two-year window, and vice-versa.

Would say that Alabama health care workers cannot be forced to provide a service that violates his or her conscience, particularly services related to abortion, human cloning, human embryonic stem cell research and sterilization.

--- Adoption Tax Credit Act, Rep. Paul Lee, R-Dothan.

Would give residents who adopt an Alabama child through private adoption or the state foster care system a one-time, $1,000 tax credit, which would apply for the year the adoption was finalized.

Would place in statutory law the immunity provisions in the state Constitution to give teachers and employees “clear cut and codified immunity from being sued while acting in their official capacity.”

The Taxpayers' Bill of Rights and the Healthcare Rights of Conscience Act are the only two of the nine bills that have been proposed before, Hubbard said.

"We've got lots more that we want to do," Hubbard said. "But these are bills that represent the conservative beliefs and principles that Republicans in the state of Alabama and I believe the vast majority of Alabamians embrace and believe in."